Covariability between tree-ring-based precipitation reconstructions in Northwest China and the sea-surface temperature of the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Climate Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-27

  Fang, Keyan ^a   Gou, Xiaohua ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a   Li, Jinbao ^b   Zhou, Feifei ^a   Li, Yingjun ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; NW China; Precipitation reconstruction; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HYDROCLIMATIC; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; INVERSE CORRELATION; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; NORTHWEST CHINA; NW CHINA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SINGULAR VALUES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY; XINJIANG;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FORESTRY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CLIMATE MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MONSOON; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREE RING; WESTERLY;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; KAZAKHSTAN; LAKE BALKHASH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053249695     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01019     Document Type: Article

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